Born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam in 1970, now living in the US as a claimed and renamed TRA

New York Times: Relative Choices post

When I first started reading about adoption, I kept coming across the words “well-adjusted adoptee.” In 1970s the thinking was that adoptees should be content with their present lives and not think about their adoptions. I read studies on the Internet in the 1990s and it seemed little had changed. Questions beyond childhood curiosity and looking anything other than “happy” would get you labeled as having psychological problems or “issues.”